The
politics of fear disables people, permitting the enemies of freedom
to take rights away with the complicity of those disabled and without
so much as a fight. Whether the fear arises from acts of terrorism or
industry leaders who demand that government regulators be appeased in
the government’s quest to exercise control, the result is the
same, freedom gives way to tyranny. There is an alternative to fear
and defeatism and that is hope and courage. When a depraved world closes
around a free people, their future depends on their hope and courage.

The
war against terror depends on the insistence of free people to keep
their nations free while hunting down and destroying those who would
have us recoil in fear and enslave our own people. If we enslave our
own people on the notion that doing so is necessary to protect them
from terror, we have conceded the ultimate battle without a true fight.
Rather, the goal must be to protect and expand freedom. We must reject
the notion that to be free we must be deprived of liberty for a time.
History teaches that almost every liberty lost takes generations to
regain; no liberty must be conceded and each must be defended at all
cost.

Al
Qaeda and other sympathetic groups are relatively small bands of thugs
whose infamy comes from their willingness to do anything to kill. While
murderous, they are no more cohesive than organized crime in other sectors,
the mob, drug cartels, pirates, and street gangs. To prevail against
them we have to infiltrate their ranks, identify their whereabouts,
and arrest or destroy them. We should not become distracted in this
quest but should be singular of mind, aggressive, and relentless. We
should also appreciate that those who from low self-esteem or from religious
fanaticism can be led to suicide bombing will always be a small subset
of the entire group and depend on those who will direct their acts of
terror.

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Success
against the terrorists depends on proving the utter futility of their
quest. We must not only destroy those who organize and direct operations
against us but also destroy or arrest all who give them aid and comfort.
A defensive battle against those dedicated to kill you entails far greater
risk of loss than an offensive battle against those same people. We
must never wait for injury but must turn the tables on the attackers
and make the terrorists devote their time and resources to survival
against an endless and inescapable quest by our overt and covert forces
to eradicate them. We must never be the hapless hunted but always the
noble hunter; freedom is inevitably lost by the former and just as inevitably
won by the latter.

The
threat to freedom from terrorism is mimicked in a more subtle but no
less threatening way by those who, for self-interest, counsel against
waging court battles against government actions that deprive liberty.
There are many domestic threats to liberty that pose a greater threat
to freedom than terrorists do. Those threats come from trade associations
that counsel their members not to sue the government because doing so
will offend regulators but, rather, to accept a loss of liberty as the
price of cooperation. Those threats come from President Obama and the
leadership of the Congress who counsel that forcing all uninsured Americans
to buy health insurance by 2014 (Obamacare) entails a loss of freedom
and an expansion of government control essential to give the uninsured
access to health care. The argument falters because it rests on the
false premise that you must control the entire health care industry
and deny all consumers freedom of choice to provide those who are presently
uninsured health coverage.

The
fact is the government already provides the uninsured health coverage
through various means. Moreover, even were you to establish funded health
savings accounts for those who cannot afford but want health coverage,
the price would be a fraction of the cost of the takeover of the American
medical establishment; but the politics of fear have brought us to the
point where forty million Americans will be forced by their government
to buy private health insurance at a cost to them of between $3,000
and $15,000 per year. Freedom of choice is thus vanquished.

As
we must be relentless in the quest to eradicate those who would kill
our people or scare them into enslaving themselves, so too we must be
relentless in our insistence that those who govern us refrain from enslaving
us and protect, not disparage, our economic and civil liberties.

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On
November 2, every U.S. Congressional seat and 37 U.S. Senate seats will
be up for election. We have an enormous opportunity to make liberty
central to the American republic. Without question, few if any candidates
running are of the stature, integrity, or ability of George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Ronald Reagan, but if you vote against
every one that voted for Obamacare and vote in favor of those who have
pledged to repeal that awful law, you will help derail the movement
to enslave us and you will do much to restore liberty and hope.

Jonathan
W. Emord is an attorney who practices constitutional and administrative
law before the federal courts and agencies. Congressman Ron Paul calls
Jonathan “a hero of the health freedom revolution” and says
“all freedom-loving Americans are in [his] debt . . . for his courtroom
[victories] on behalf of health freedom.” He has defeated the FDA
in federal court a remarkable seven times, six on First Amendment grounds,
and is the author of Amazon bestsellers The
Rise of Tyranny, and Global
Censorship of Health Information. For
more info visit Emord.com.

Success
against the terrorists depends on proving the utter futility of their
quest. We must not only destroy those who organize and direct operations
against us but also destroy or arrest all who give them aid and comfort.